Chapter 401 Taiwan Province was established

The two happy events of the year came to the door, and Yang Dongfang returned to Chengdu to show affection with several concubines. To read a book

It turned out that Hu Lili and Bai Li were also pregnant, and next year they will add Ding for him, and Yang Dongfang was happy for a while, and hurriedly returned from the northwest to tell several concubines, love them in every way, and leave enough time to accompany them.

The thought of having four children next year is really exciting, but it also makes Yang Dongfang very emotional, strengthens the connection with Canada, and cares about Yanma.

Searching about the Canadian plan and the U.S. federal plan, I found that everything is good, with a huge amount of money, not only controlling many important industries in the federation, but also quietly importing technology into the country.

He also exchanged a lot of gold and silver in Europe with US dollars, and took out the foundation of many European countries.

This made Yang Dongfang quite satisfied, and what reassured him even more was that the arsenal in California had built breech guns, improved Gatling guns, and established a new naval shipyard with the alliance to build brand-new ironclad ships, and strive to launch a few ships next year.

The domestic arsenal also made efforts, and the Jinling Arsenal and the Guangzhou Arsenal could both make Makqin machine guns.

The Chengdu Arsenal has developed a chamber-loading repeating rifle with a magazine, and the new gun is named Tiehan No. 1, which is being tested and wiped, and it is believed that it will be put into production and assembled in batches in a few months.

Of course, various arsenals are making large quantities of bullets and shells, hoarding ammunition, and accumulating war potential.

In the field of civil and political affairs, the provinces have prepared for the establishment of universities, the establishment of primary schools, middle schools, and night schools, the simplification of Chinese characters has been popularized throughout the country, and a vigorous literacy campaign has been launched.

At the same time, at the end of the Chengdu scientific examination, Yang Dongfang met with 200 scholars with good grades, and asked them one by one to understand the basic situation, and then said: "You are the future of the empire, but also the cornerstone of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, I hope you will study hard in the place, strengthen the exercise, you must remember that you are only an intern official, for a year, then I will personally examine, if you do not do well, I will play the board." ”

"Your Majesty! We must live up to the expectations of Your Majesty, the expectations of the empire, and the hopes of the people, and do a good job of building bricks and tiles for the country! ”

Yang Dongfang waved his hand and took them to eat a sweet meal of bitter reminiscences, instead of a luxurious banquet, and then sent everyone to various departments to study and practice.

In the following days, he went to the lecture hall to listen to the construction and enrollment of martial arts schools across the country, as well as the experience of training middle- and lower-ranking officers and various branches of the armed forces, and talked with these instructors to do a good job in the ideological education of the schools, as well as military reform and tactical research.

"Oh! The Mongol domain of Monan can't stand it so soon! Yang Dongfang took the latest battle report from the north, but he didn't expect that the Mongolian banners close to Shanxi and Hebei, such as the Ala Shan League, the Ordos League, and the Ulanchabu League, as well as the Qinghai 29 Mongolian Banner, took the initiative to express their attachment. To see? Books?· １·ＣＯＭ

Zeng Shihe said: "It may be that Your Majesty pacified the northwest too quickly, and it was too clean, which frightened them, and there were too many white bandit troops who jumped into Mongolia, and they didn't dare not come to beg." ”

Yang Dongfang nodded, this is the truth, the northwest has been pacified in a few months, it is faster, but he snorted coldly and said: "What kind of bullshit is these princes, county kings Baylor or something, it is estimated that they are more interested in our rifles, thinking that sooner or later they will not vote, and they all want to make some benefits." ”

"Then Your Majesty can't rely on them for this, the musket is the foundation of our country, and it is a sharp weapon to deal with the grassland." Zeng Shihe said firmly.

"Zeng Aiqing doesn't need to be in a hurry, sell them the old breech guns, let them go to Mobei to fight, we just need to control the supply of ammunition, in case they dare to rebel, I can make their muskets all into burning sticks." Yang Dongfang said with a sneering smile on his face: "Besides, when they really want to rebel, I'm afraid that those slave herdsmen of theirs won't be willing." ”

Therefore, Yang Dongfang soon approved the annexation of the banners of the Monan Huade and the Monan and Qinghai Mongolian leagues west of Monan, and sold weapons to them, and the breech guns were destined to be eliminated, and they could also make a lot of silver for the innovation of weapons and the accelerated production of breech guns to replace the war zones.

Of course, there is not necessarily much money in each banner, Yang Dongfang asked them to convert the horses into **, and get more than 30,000 good horses for each cavalry brigade.

Then the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cavalry brigades were expanded into divisions of about 10,000 people, and a large number of cavalry were recruited in Gansu, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, and three northwest cavalry regiments were established at the same time, namely the Hezhou regiment headed by Ma Zhanao, the Ningxia regiment headed by Ma Hualong, and the Pingliang regiment headed by Xu Wei.

The regiments that had performed meritorious service in the Northwest War were expanded into brigades, and cavalry training was strengthened from time to time, striving to become a cavalry army to deal with possible wars between the Western Regions and the future Mongols and Tsarist Russia.

Of course, he also officially expanded Ge Hui's Northwest Independent Division into an army and set up two independent artillery brigades.

Another good thing was accomplished a few years ago, and the provinces basically connected the main telegraph line, the provincial capitals were connected, and the communication between them was strengthened, and after next year, efforts were made to open up the telegraph for civilian use.

The Chinese New Year passed quickly, and there was a scene of joy everywhere, and in a midst of jubilation and gratitude, the Chinese Empire entered its second year, that is, in 1866.

This year, the Lantern Festival just now, the empire promulgated the new era law, the Chinese empire did not implement the era name system, but changed to the Eastern Yuan, starting from the accession of Qin Shi Huang, China entered the Eastern Yuan year.

The empire is now 2087 CE! All feudal states also implemented the Touen system and unified the law of the era.

In the first month, Yang Dongfang was busy meeting with generals and officials in various military regions, inspecting the construction situation and observing the people's feelings.

"Your Majesty's situation is like this, until the news of the discord between the two armies of Xinchu came out, Britain and France really came to woo us, France gave up the idea of reclaiming the warship, and also took the initiative to send instructors to help us train the navy, Britain and France also opened a ship repair station on the island, instigating us to build a country, and also set up a bridge with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that they can release their previous suspicions." Shen Baozhen talked about last year's events.

"Your Majesty! After five months of training, the Taiwan fleet has now begun to have combat effectiveness and is ready for a war! Zuo Zongtang said with a strong sense of war: "Your Majesty has pacified the northwest in a few months, and I think Your Majesty should also let us pacify the East China Sea and the South China Sea as soon as possible, and completely expel these foreigners." ”

Shen Baozhen also said: "Your Majesty, if our four fleets encircle and destroy the British and French warships, can we directly attack and destroy the puppet Qing in the northeast, I heard that the North Korean side has not been peaceful recently, and some people are making Li Xi's rebellion, and there is a trend of intensification." We should pacify the Northeast as soon as possible, take advantage of this to intervene in the Korean war, and take control of the Korean royal court. ”

Yang Dongfang nodded and said: "It's not a hurry to get rid of the puppet Qing in the Northeast, I still have to keep them, let Britain and France worry about it, and invest more capital, once there is no puppet Qing, we won't have a good excuse to turn against these two countries." ”

Yang Dongfang had his own plans, and he didn't want to kill Xiao Liuzi now, so the topic turned to North Korea: "The affairs of North Korea must be taken seriously, I will send more people over to investigate the intelligence, and the Li Dynasty cannot die now." ”

Today, Shen Baozhen reminded this matter, it is worth thinking carefully about Yang Dongfang, whether the change in North Korea is a butterfly effect or a traverser, he must figure this out.

After staying in Taiwan for a few days, Yang Dongfang flew to Guangzhou, and after he left, the Chu army acted quickly, first inviting eight British and French warships to conduct joint exercises, and then seizing and capturing the warships in one fell swoop.

In the end, all British and French shops and ship repair yards on the island were seized, and the so-called instructors were locked up.

Soon, with the Taiwan fleet as the main force and the captured warships, 18 warships sailed out of the military port and headed for the Penghu Islands.

After the Penghu Islands were occupied by the French army, they became an important base for Britain and France to blockade the Taiwan Strait, so even if they had a good relationship with the Chu army, they never returned it, and another meaning was also intended to deter the Chu army.

In the city of Guangzhou! Liu Yongfu was asking Yang Dongfang: "Your Majesty! Now our Southern Theater is doing well in all aspects, but the South China Sea Fleet is a little inadequate, Commander Liang and they are all sailors, and it is a little difficult to become a new navy, so you have to transfer some instructors to us. ”

Liu Yongfu couldn't help but worry, last year Yang Dongfang transferred half of the elite of the Guangxi Navy Division to the north, and even the French army who came to teach naval warfare with prisoners was sent to the northern theater, and now he is full of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and Liang Peiyou is about to become a bare-bones commander.

Yang Dongfang saw him pour bitter water and teased: "Don't be so stingy, the pockmarks are all for the country, what is the north and the south, don't worry, it won't be too long, your South China Sea fleet will be the most powerful one, and when Deng Shichang and they return to China, they will first enter your southern theater, they are all young men, enough for you to toss." ”

Liu Yongfu's face became even more bitter after hearing this, and when Deng Shichang's group of boys returned to China, the Year of the Monkey and Ma Yue went, and it would be even more headache for all student dolls.

"Okay, don't have a headache, now gather the South China Sea Fleet and the Army, eat the Hong Kong detachment of the British Army, and liberate Hong Kong." After Yang Dongfang gave the order, Liu Yongfu immediately asked all the departments to take the oath to go on the expedition.

A main army regiment was personally led by Yang Dongfang and flew into the island, and separately attacked the governor's mansion and various government agencies and docks.

Seeing this, four warships of the British Hong Kong Squadron left Hong Kong and engaged in a fight with the South China Sea Fleet, one of which was sunk, while the other three fled north and prepared to go to Taiwan.

As a result, when they encountered the Taiwan fleet in Dongsha, they asked for help to counterattack, and did not want to be intercepted by the Taiwan fleet, so they were blocked in front and pursued in the rear, and after hearing that the Penghu Islands had been captured by the Chu army and that eight exercise warships had been captured, they could only surrender and give up useless resistance.

After Hong Kong was settled, the South China Sea Fleet and the Taiwan Fleet went north to Shanghai to join the East China Sea Fleet, and formed a joint fleet to pull the net north to the Yellow River in search of British and French warships cruising in the Yellow Sea.

Then he went directly to Weihai and the Yellow Sea Fleet, formed a large fleet group, entered the Bohai Sea, and relied on a huge numerical advantage to fight with more than a dozen British and French combined warships in the Bohai Sea, and the British and French fleets were completely annihilated.

The Fourth Fleet captured Jinzhou, repaired the Lushun harbor and fort in the Jinzhou area, stationed an army brigade, controlled the Bohai Strait, established the Bohai Fleet, and held the sea lane with the Yellow Sea Fleet in Weihai.

At the same time, the Chu army on the Taiwanese side tore off its camouflage and joined the Chinese Empire of the New People's Army.

Yang Dongfang also announced the establishment of Taiwan Province and the Taiwan Theater in a high-profile manner, immigrating 500,000 people to Taiwan to develop treasure islands, rewarding Zuo Zongtang and major generals, and comprehensively reforming the Chu army and moving towards modernization. (To be continued.) )